From April 14-15 the European heads of state are meeting at the EU spring summit in Brussels. This is the meeting where those infamous austerity packages, authoritarian memoranda and policies of impoverishment continue to be decided, which - for years now! - have destroyed lives of millions of persons in the EU and beyond.

This time around, the summit takes place in a context in which the continent has been infected by resistance. Just four months ago in November 2012 the first European General Strike took place – and precarious workers, migrants, students with no future and unemployed flooded the streets. Now, massive protests in Bulgaria and Slovenia have ousted their austerity-friendly governments. General strikes in Greece continue to protest the destructive saving measures. Organized communities across Spain are defending themselves with the principle "Don't Owe, Won't Pay!" Refugees in Germany have risen up to demand rights in Germany; public sector workers in Berlin/Brandenburg have gone to strike. Across the continent neighbors are coming together to protect each other against forced evictions, against the consequences of austerity, financialization and capitalist profit-seeking.

Yet despite this harsh social crisis - despite the resistance all these countries and the networking of struggles against the capitalist crisis - the governments continue to push non-democratic, top-down decisionmaking austerity politics in the EU. This means a continued neoliberal redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer – even if the German government erases this reality from its economic reports!

On March 13, the day before the EU summit, we will come together – like people in Italy, Spain, Slovenia and all of Europe – to say - NO! Austerity back to sender!

We will announce a European spring!

March 13 is our warm up for a spring of protest, of resistance, of creating another coexistence. It is our kick-off in Berlin towards the massive blockade of the European Central Bank on May 31 and the international demonstration on June 1 - Blockupy Frankfurt!

On March 13 on Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg we will gather alongside and together with Kotti&Co, the initiative against racism in and displacement from the central districts of Berlin. We will gather to ask each other: What is going on these European policies? How do they affect us in Berlin? What do our struggles here have to do with the protests in Bulgaria, in Slovenia, in Spain?

And more importantly: Rather than austerity, bank bailouts and displacement: What kind of Europe do we want? And how do we make that happen?

Come all! Join us at 3 pm at Kottbusser Tor, on the corner of Admiralstraße! There will be music, discussion, creative actions, information and talks by the Berlin Blockupy Platform and Blockupy Frankfurt, Kotti&Co, the coalition against forced evictions, the Refugee Strike! and the campaign to communalize energy in Berlin of the Berliner Energietisch. At 5pm there will be a teach-in about the EU, the spring summit and the austerity measures.

An action to prevent deportation of a well known refugee activist (Patras B.). Don't let the German government use repression and censorship in the name of the public, meaning in the name of you and us. They claim that his deportation is necessary, because his political activism causes a threat to the public safety in Germany.

Come with us to the Bavarian government offices in Berlin, Behrenstrasse 21/22 in Berlin/Mitte at 4/3/2013 12 o clock. From there we will have a demonstration to Oranienplatz. What we need is your solidarity!!!

Patras Bwansi is one of the central figures of the refugee protests in Germany. For months, the 34-year-old tries to inform the German public to the degrading situation of refugees, give interviews to journalists, organized demonstrations against expulsion, residence requirement and camp accommodation. Now, the refugee activist has received a deportation notice. The district Passau claims he was submerged and consider themselves without a valid passport at an undisclosed location. Thus, he had forfeited its toleration status.

In his homeland of Uganda, Bwansi fought for the rights of homosexuals, where massive tracked. In the summer of 2010, he fled to Berlin, was assigned to a camp in the Bavarian Breitenberg at Passau. His application for asylum was rejected last year. No pass Bwansi can be not deported but." (Translated by Bing)Comments: 0, Rating: 0

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The "refugees' problem",which is always a personal one, is resulted by the terrible phenomenon produced at the basis of the Western society, in which Germany is a very key component- the phenomenon of exploitation and usage of resources, including people, in distant lands, by corruption made through "Party Political Foundation" networks, while exporting weapons to (all) rival parties and creating a hierarchy of laws of migration in itself and in europe, of which violations could be resulted in deportation by "Frontex" to war zones made by weapons made in Germany, such weapons for torturing, killing tracking and intimidation (eg Sudan).

Germany is a key player in this phenomenon, because Germany is the third largest exporter of arms and this issue is relevant to the 13/3 the European summit in Brussels which will discuss how to make Europe more federal, an aim which includes punitive forces and military police use of weapons developed and manufactured to punish protectors and immigrants and often on the basis of racist.

Hence the struggle for refugees in Germany - a struggle for those who made to be the most weak in this society - is also for the many other forces recognizing the changes their society must make, for to recover from its illness emerging in attacking its most weak ones, such are the forces fighting against austerity and privatisation, gentrification etc.Comments: 1, Rating: 0

Using this community sitecreated: 12 Jun 2012 17:56
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This is your project blogcreated: 12 Jun 2012 17:56
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Anyone can contributecreated: 12 Jun 2012 17:56
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In this way, your users can help to formulate documentation when it is in a very early stage — and you can move it to the Docs when it is complete.

There are many other uses an open Wiki can provide for your project. If you leave the permissions as they are so that anyone can contribute, your users might surprise you ;-)Comments: 0, Rating: 0